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| I was looking at the #4886 Designers set in the Lugnet set database yesterday. And there were a few things that troubled me about it. Not the design per se, but just the whole concept of going from a "minifig" environment (3 walls, juniorized parts, (...) (20 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Buildings with 4 Walls
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| (...) And you may be right. Perhaps the AFOL community (even with the addition of a smaller scale architectural line) are just not significant enough of a population to warrant ever getting special parts not produced for the general public. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: new scans posted
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| (...) Nice photos Dave! I love the Doll Furniture set. It predates the Homemaker/Big People sets by a few years. It looks kinda lonely, all that furniture and no people. Samsonite (USA/Canada) Lego was kind of a trend setter. They had gears (1965) 5 (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.inst)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: LEGO® Group wins lawsuit in Finland
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| (...) SNIP This is good new. Lego has been plagued by clones for as long as Lego has been produced. I received a quantity of slotted Lego bricks (1949-57) from a Danish seller. And in that assortment (about 1000 bricks) there were about 30 clones. (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: LEGO® Group wins lawsuit in Finland
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| (...) The studs unadorned. The middle had a slight raised area, which for lack of a better term looked somewhat like a "nipple", with concentric circles around them (probably from the mold milling machine). I have examples of these clones in red, (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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| | Original vs. Copy: Printed Lego Items
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| I received a 1964 Danish catalog from a European collector recently. Since I got if for free (after buying some other items), I thought it was great. The one sheet (two sided) catalog is in such great condition, I was wondering if it wasn't a (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Introducing the LEGO Affiliate Program
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| (...) I'm surprised Eric Harshbarger's name is not on that list. He's done some magnificent work with his Lego furniture, mosaic's and sculptures. He's created a whole new genre of Lego ideas. He did make it out of last summer's hurricane season, (...) (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Introducing the LEGO Affiliate Program
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| (...) Here's something that would really set the AFOL community into an uproar.... what if the affiliates were able to get bricks (or parts) in bulk that were not available to the general AFOL community. Although I doubt this would happen. (Akin to (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The Oldest Lego Sets
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| (...) Ooops, got a little ahead of myself...... The dates on those old 1949-56 #700/x sets are still tentative. Waiting to hear back from TLG for sure. Gary Istok (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The all-new LUGNET .Underground
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| (...) TLG made a few interesting pictures of mine cars coming in and out of a mountain, along with a cable car going up the mountain on the outside. This is found in Lego booklet #241 and Lego book #242: (URL) then, speaking of bridges, these books (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.underground)
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gerhard, istok
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| | The Oldest Lego Sets
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| For anyone who has ever wondered what the earliest Lego sets looked like before the advent of the modern Lego, here is a pic that shows the 4 oldest Lego set styles. Eric Strand used Photoshop to size them nicely, and Clark Stephens has them on his (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Trolley
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| (...) Did someone say Tan windows? Ooops Tan Train windows.... Yep 21 of the 1x4x3 and 10 of the 1x2x3 tan train windows were sold on Bricklink in the last 6 months. I find some strange items that I never knew existed, on Bricklink.... things like (...) (19 years ago, 21-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The Oldest Lego Sets
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| (...) OK, I got confirmation from the folks in Billund about the actual dates that these sets were produced..... Upper Left: 1949-53 Lower Left: 1952-53 Upper Right: 1953-55 Lower Right: 1953-55 In essence what they said was these box styles were (...) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) Oh, I forgot to mention.... as an example of old part continuing to show up in new sets... the old gray, old dark gray and old brown will be showing up in various sets for years to come, as we are already starting to see. As long as there is (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) Hi Dave, looks like others beat me to the punch.... But speaking of grooves, Lego tiles, which first came into production in late 1965, came without grooves in the tile parts packs #510 (1965), and #471 (1966-68). Trying to date a specific (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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| Just like many AFOL's/ALE's, USA Lego went thru the dark ages. Interestingly enough, it was around the same time I went thru my own dark ages. The years were the 1970's. In the beginning of the 1970's USA Lego sales were licensed to the Samsonite (...) (19 years ago, 30-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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| (...) Hey thanks for the Kudo's folks! I want Lugnet to be the center of the Lego universe, so I am doing my part to help facilitate this by giving you folks info that is just not found anywhere else. I like to play Sherlock Holmes with all the old (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What is ALE?
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| (...) Why don't we use "Adult Hobbyist Of Lego" or AHOL! After all we are all AHOLs once in a while! :-p Gary Istok (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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